On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 13:29 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: >> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:08, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: >>> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:46 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:47, John Fox wrote: >>>>> What yum version would be suitable for Centos 3? >>>> >>>> I just built 2.3.4 for CentOS 3.5: >>> >>> Does yum >= 2.1 support old-style yum-arch repos? >> >> No. And neither should repos. If they only support the old-style >> because of legacy reasons, then those maintaining such repos should be >> encouraged to generate xml-md. This would be something that more >> active CentOS community members would have to engage in. I'm not sure >> of many yum-enabled CentOS 3.5 repos out there. > > one reason has to do with kernels and mkinitrd. > > yum 2.0.X would automatically make the just-installed and newest kernel > the default kernel for booting. Yum 2.2.X and 2.4.X dropped that > 'functionality' b/c the mkinitrd package in the newer distributions and > newer releases handled that for us. > > So the problem with running yum >= 2.2.X on a centos3 machine is that > the new kernel won't be the default boot kernel. For yum 2.4.x that's easily solved with a plugin :) - Panu -
